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Our Partners


In addition to the individuals we serve, the following organizations were the recipients of the gracious donations from our supporters.
We thank you for your continued support.

Alicia's House
South Chicago Heights​
The mission of Alicia's House is to  alleviate hunger and the problems associated with hunger by providing food at no cost to the low income residents of Crete, Beecher, Steger, Monee, Peotone, University Park, and South Chicago Heights.

Answers for Angels
Frankfort
Answers for Angels addresses the challenges cancer patients and their families face by helping patients pay for treatments and services that improve their well being. By providing information on a variety of treatment related topics, by helping patients and families address financial challenges cause by the diagnosis, and by simply showing their love and care to those experiencing cancer-related hardship.

Aunt Martha's Health and Wellness, Inc. 
South Chicago Heights
Aunt Martha's mission is to provide heath care, social workers, educators, counselors, and advocates to their patients and clients. They are dedicated to connecting those they serve with exactly what they need through the services they provide.

Bethel Community Facility
Chicago Heights
The mission of the Bethel Community Facility is to address the spiritual, social, physical, emotional, and cultural needs of people regardless of race, creed or color. They serve the disadvantaged of Suburban Cook County by participating in the economic and social development of the community, promoting the educational growth of both children and adults, and assisting in the strengthening of families.

Bridges To A New Day
Lockport
Bridges to a New Day is a charitable organization whose mission is to provide prevention, intervention, and education services which foster non-violence in the lives of children and adults. Through their series of workshops for the community and other social services agencies, they hope to address the effects of violence on the lives of children and their families. They provide the tools and resources necessary to prevent further occurrences of violence and to promote a healthy, non-violent life style.

Camp Quality Illinois
Lansing
Camp Quality Illinois provides a week-long summer camp for children with cancer along with a five additional year around activities for the children and their families.
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Cancer Support Center
Homewood & Mokena
The Cancer Support Center is here to give strength, guidance, and support to anyone living with a cancer diagnosis, as well as to their loved ones. Their programs and resources are delivered by professional therapists, counselors, nutritionists, and experts. They host these programs in a warm, welcoming, and nurturing setting at no cost to participants.

Catholic Charities, St. Anne's Monday Night Dinners
Hazel Crest
Dinners St. Anne’s in Hazel Crest provides charity to anyone in need by providing compassionate, competent, and professional services that strengthen and support individuals, families, and communities based on the value of dignity of human life.They offer 150 programs taking care of these in need from cradle to grave, including emergency services, homeless prevention, nutrition programs, senior service, food pantries, weekly suppers, veterans’ services as well as behavioral health.     

CFT Illinois
Orland Park
CTF Illinois Orland Park is a nonprofit organization that has provided services throughout the state of Illinois for 18 years.  CTF assists children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, metal illnesses, physical disabilities, hearing and vision impairments, and learning disabilities.  Their supports include community day training, therapy, residential services, social and recreational opportunities, psychosocial rehabilitation, community support, job development, and more.  Through all of their services, they are guided by their mission and by their vision to create a culture where people are not defined by their differences but recognized for the value they bring to their communities.

Crisis Center for South Suburbia
Tinley Park
The Crisis Center for South Suburbia is a non-profit community organization that provides emergency shelter and other essential services for individuals and families victimized by domestic violence and addresses the societal issues that contribute to domestic violence.

Dynasty Cheerabilities 
​​Tinley Park
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Cheer Extreme Expire provides and opportunity for athletes to compete in cheerleading programs through the Special Olympic Program.

Ephraim's House 
Frankfort
Ephraim House is an adaptive art studio  that provides art experiences that are hands on, process based for all individuals with learning disabilities. 

 Exceptional Children's Charities
Chicago Heights
Exceptional Children's Charities assist special children and their families through continued support from their generous donors.

Frankfort Township Food Pantry

Frankfort
The Frankfort Township Food Pantry provides food to families in need that live in Frankfort Township. They currently serve 346 Frankfort Township families and serves 796 individuals. 
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Flossmoor Community Church
Flossmoor
The mission of Flossmoor Community Church is to enter into a faithful, Christ-like relationship with others. They welcome both friend and stranger, celebrate all gifts, embrace the hurting, and labor with others to restore what is broken. Through their Christmas Angels program, they help organize the distribution of surprise one-time gifts to families in need.

GiGi's Playhouse

Tinley Park
Dedicated to helping individuals with Down Syndrome in Chicago's south suburbs. The Tinley Park location offers more than 30 therapeutically and educationally based programs that advance speech and communication skills, literacy skills, math skills, motor skills and more for individuals with Down Syndrome of all ages.

​Glenwood Academy
Glenwood
Glenwood Academy is the Chicago area's only boarding academy for disadvantaged children. They nurture and educate at-risk children by inspiring excellence, building character and strengthening community. Glenwood encourages children who have been entrusted to the academy to live, learn, and grow through their network of educators, cottage families, and volunteers.


​​Good Shepherd Center for Exceptional Childern
Hazel Crest
Good Shepherd Center, a community advocate for children and adults with and without disabilities, provides support, services, and education that empower individuals and families to lead exceptional lives.

Harold Colbert Jones Memorial Community Center
Ford Heights
Their core mission is to improve quality of life for underprivileged and to assist others in a time of crisis, emphasizing emergency, supportive and education services to individuals and families until they stabilize. 

Home 2 Home Project
Orland Park
The Home 2 Home Project in Orland Park, extends a helping hand to individuals and families in need as they transition to a new home. The Home 2 Home Project collects gently used furniture and household good from donations received from surrounding communities and repurposed them to create a warm, beautiful, and welcoming environment for their clients.

Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra
Park Forest
Provides concerts of compelling professional symphonic music education, and expand audience awareness of musical excellence for the diverse communities of the greater Chicago region.
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Journey Care
Olympia Fields
Journey Care, formerly Midwest Palliative & Hospice Care Center, provides compassionate, exceptional care to terminally ill patients and their families regardless of their ability to pay.

Journey Pregnancy & Life Hub

​Frankfort
Journey Pregnancy & Life Hub offer free and confidential mentoring service to any woman in need. They "journey" with her from survival to success.

Kicking It Back
Beecher
Kicking It Back in Beecher improves the lives of young people through mentoring, sports, and education and provides after school programming for children at risk. In the communities they serve many children and teens are not able to participate in after school or extra-curricular activities due to financial limitations or lack of parental support and are in need of a place for guidance and enrichment activities after school.  They are committed to assisting the children who reside in Crete, Beecher, Steger, Monee, University Park, Grant Park, and South Chicago Heights.  They meet in the community hall in Beecher. Juan Hernandez founded this program after he was mentored by a man who taught him martial arts without charging him a penny.  He paid for his travel, registration fees for tournaments as well as lessons.  Juan became a multi-winner of National and World Championships in martial arts.  He then helped him get to college and even grad school.  While acting as the Chaplin for a police department He saw potential for the police force to have a positive impact on the lives of children in the area so he started the PAKT program.  PAKT provides opportunities for youth and police to interact in a positive way and to provide youth with a positive influence. 

KidsWork Children's Museum 
Frankfort
The KidsWork Children's Museum is a cultural institution that brings children, families, and community together to engage in fun, hands- on interactive play so as to nurture life-long learning and discovery. 

Moraine Valley Community College
Palos Hills
The women of Suburban Service League offer scholarships to female students wishing to continue their college education at Moraine Valley Community College

My Joyful Heart
Lockport
My Joyful Heart provides personalized assistance and encouragement for Chicago area and suburban children in need. They provide a positive influence to these children in need by providing them with basic life essentials, school supplies, clothing, toys, and encouragement through each year until their situation improves or they move from the area.

Love Moves Us
Frankfort
LoveMoves Us was established to serve the families of those who make the life decision to foster or adopt society's most vulnerable population-children who have been removed from their biological homes due to abuse or neglect. These children have experienced loss or trauma at the core level. 

​NAMI
Homewood
The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill advocates for better mental health care through support, education, advocacy, and research.

New Lenox Township Food Pantry
New Lenox
The New Lenox Township Food Pantry is available for Township residents in need of food supplies.

New Star
Chicago Heights
They serves individuals with intellectual and development disabilities that reside throughout the South Suburbs of Chicago and Northwest, Indiana. They are committed to challenging the limits and changing the lives of the people they serve through personalized care. They meet each client where they are in terms of their current abilities, then find creative ways to take them where they have the potential go. 

NextSteps of O'Conner Chicago
WIllow Springs
NextSteps offers a unique fusion of physical therapists, physical therapist assistants, and personal trainers working in tandem to provide functional, activity- based and specific locomotor training for people with neurological disorders. NextSteps was the first free standing, non-profit physical therapy and exercise facility devoted to the rehabilitation and overall wellness of people living with some of the most challenging and devastating injures and disorders.


One Love Global Wellness Foundation
Mokena
The One Love Global Wellness Foundation created the Mission Meals program to support local individuals and families in need. Serving individuals of all ages,  the Mission Meals program is a free meal program that provides individuals with the opportunity to order and dine in a restaurant environment.







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PADS (Public Action to Deliver Shelter)
Flossmoor
South SuburbsPADS is an emergency shelter program that provides shelter located in various churches and temples throughout the south suburbs. In addition to overnight lodging, they also provide breakfast, lunch, and dinner through the months of October to May.
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PASS Pregnancy Care Centers

Tinley Park
PASS centers provide a safe, non-judgmental environment for pregnancy, parenting, family, relationship, and restoration resources. They provide classes to new and very young mothers to learn about the process of childbirth and caring for an
infant, along with many other topics such as communication and home economics.
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Parents & Friends of the Ludeman Center

Park Forest
The mission of Parents and Friends of the Ludeman Center is to advocate for the rights of all residents of the Elisabeth Ludeman Center, to work with the center towards the quality of life enhancement, and to act as an all-volunteer support organization for the family members and friends of the residents.

Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest
Orland Park
The Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing comfort and distraction from painful procedures to children and teens who have been diagnosed with cancer, by providing gifts from the treasure chest. 

PLOWS Council on Aging
Orland Park
PLOWS Council on Aging is a non-profit social service organization serving individuals 60 years of age and older in Palos, Lemont, Orland, and Worth Township. PLOWS places special emphasis on helping maintain people in their homes and provides a number of services with that objective in mind.
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Prairie State College Foundation

Chicago Heights
The women of Suburban Service League offer scholarships to female students wishing to continue their college education at Prairie State College.

Reclaim13
Downers Grove
Reclaim13 was created to show victims of sexual trafficking that they are not alone, that people do care about their well being, people will help, and they are safe and loved. 

Respond Now
Chicago Heights
Respond Now provides a host of essential services, such as food, shelter, monetary assistance, medical aid, and clothes, to people in need in south suburban Cook County.

Restoration Ministries
Harvey
Restoration Ministries is a Christian-based organization that serves all segments of the population with a special emphasis on at-risk, disadvantaged children and teens.

The Sanctuary
Manhattan
The Sanctuary houses a program that assists women with children to recover from homelessness and to achieve independence.

Sertoma Centre, Inc.
Alsip
The mission of the Sertoma Centre is to provide opportunities that empower individuals with disabilities to achieve personal success.

SOS Children's Villages 
Lockport
SOS Children's Villages help children whose world is upside down due to parental abuse, neglect, or abandonment. They offer children with the foster care system a place to call home and the tools to heal their physical, psychological, and emotional wounds. They keep siblings together with a full-time professional foster parent in a single family home.  

Sojourn Therapeutic Riding Center, INC.
Frankfort
Sojourn Therapeutic Riding Center uses equine assisted activities to proactively contribute to an individual’s cognitive, physical, emotional, and
social well-being. They offer both therapeutic riding and equine assisted learning.

South Suburban Council on Drugs
East Hazel Crest
The South Suburban Council on Drugs provides effective treatment for those affected by substance use and mental health illness with an unwavering focus on serving patients who traditionally find it difficult to access the treatment they need.

South Suburban Family Shelter
Homewood
South Suburban Family Shelter provides caring and confidential help to victims of domestic violence. Our professional counselors and advocates understand the dynamics of domestic violence and help clients identify and choose options in their life situations. All services are free of charge for victims and are available in English and Spanish.
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South Suburban Special Recreation Association 
​Tinley Park 
Provides individuals with disabilities or special needs the chance to take part in year- round recreation activities. 

Southwest Community Services
Tinley Park
Southwest Community Services provide services that empower individuals with diverse disabilities to maximize their development and independence.

Sunflower Special Olympics Gymnastics 
Tinley Park
The Sunflower Special Olympics Gymnastics is based out of the UGA Gym in Tinley Park. It provides and opportunity for athletes to compete in gymnastics through the Special Olympic Program. 

SWIFT Outdoor Accessible Recreation
Mokena
​Devoted to enriching the lives of people with disabilities. They provide grants and accessible equipment to open  up the wonderful outdoor and create  therapeutic  experiences for those who are disabled. 


The Pantry of Rich Township, INC.
Richton Park
The Pantry of Rich Township food pantry is available for Township residents in need of food supplies.
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Thomas Cellini Huntington's Foundation
South Chicago Heights
The Thomas Cellini Huntington's Foundation was formed to support families diagnosed with Huntington's Disease. The Foundation serves as a needed resource for the Huntington's community by providing services to those who have been diagnosed with or are at risk of developing Huntington's Disease, their families, and the communities that serve them.

Together We Cope
Tinley Park
Together We Cope serves families in 27 communities of Chicago's south suburbs, bridging the gap in a number of ways to help them return to self-sufficiency.

Zelda's Kitchen Witches

Beecher
Zelda’s Kittchen Witches in Palos Heights Zelda’s Kitchen Witches provides kitchen items for women moving into transitional housing seeking an independent life. This organization was founded June of 2018.  They work closely with Home 2 Home and The Crisis Center for the South Suburbs setting up kitchens is new homes for women who have been in shelters or were homeless.

​Individuals and Families

Additionally, Suburban Service League serves individuals and families in need of financial assistance due to hardship and/or illness. If you know of someone in need of our organization's help, please fill out this form to begin the process of receiving assistance.

info@suburbanserviceleague.org
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​P.O. Box 2073 Frankfort, IL 60423
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